16 Replies to “Race for lithium grows, and a look at the leader, Prairie Lithium of Emerald Park”

  1. Lithium mining – A green, shiny, thing to distract from the destruction of the rest of Sask’s economy by the green agenda.

    Next installment – how switching cereal and oilseed crops to Belgian endive will transform Saskatchewan’s agriculture – and save the Earth.

  2. Lithium’s is really interesting. While I am drawn to think about it’s physical properties, utility and remarkable reactivity there’s a mystery that modern biochemists have yet to unravel. Lithium is called the penicillin of mental health. The story I heard on a neuroscience podcast is that normally 1 in 100 people have mania but John Cade observed in a WWII POW camp a higher level of mania that seemed to be relieved upon urination. This sparked a journey that involved Uric acid, solubility issues solved by lithium and the eventual discovery of lithium as a treatment for mood disorders. No one yet knows why lithium works but I would think that such a reactive cation could have multiple modes of activity. Since it was a treatment for gout long before it was a mood stabilizer, I believe some element of Cade’s theory around uric acid will some day be proven out.

    1. “Lithium is called the penicillin of mental health.

      In that case, we’re gonna need a shitload more to treat all the {spit} Prog politicians…

  3. Brine lithium is far too expensive vs pit mining and extraction. The new mines and refineries going in are super low cost and produce massive volumes of high grade lithium.

    2. I doubt brine lithium from the salt lakes is “too expensive”. Where are all these “new mines” with “super low costs”. What grades of lithium are they mining? As for brines from the Western Canadian Sedimentary basin I suspect they have too low a concentration Li to be economic at current Li prices but I haven’t seen any results yet. No one seems to be posting laboratory results, which if they were really good you would think they would to raise capital (at least after they have the land tied up).

  4. I will not invest a dime. An entire industry 100% dependent on the actions of government for viability? No freaking way.

    Didn’t we just see $131 Billion investment dollars evaporate in the government weed scam? This is exactly the same thing. Lithium isn’t worth digging up without greenies and their government subsidized electric cars.

  5. Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec are all getting into the biz.
    I can only hope the price of Li-ion, LiPo and LiFePo cells starts dropping.
    Even when an EV battery inevitably fails, I bet around 60%+ of the cells in it are still good, which should, provided the gov’t doesn’t stop it, make for a nice recycling industry, putting cheaper cells into the hands of the people.
    Money from rich, virtue-signaling clowns who buy into the EV bs subsidizing the little guys. What’s not to like?
    Of course, when the price of cells bottoms out, and everyone and their uncle can build a cheap e-bike, drone, taser or flashlight, we’ll have all the Karens clutching their pearls, wringing their hands, and screaming to the state to save them, as per usual in the country formerly known as Canada.

  6. If and when the stubble jumpers start to see massive profits from these new found resources, expect the feds to enact a “National Lithium Strategy” under the guise of “levelling the playing field” with those provinces that refuse to develop their own resources.

  8. EV cars are a dead end in the real world.
    The greeners (not in the real world) will signal the end of ICE vehicles before there is viable infrastructure for EV ($Trillions) and they will just tell the plebes, walk, bike or transit.
    For the planet.
    But they will continue with personal mobility as they are important.
    That will be right after they come after assault style pitch forks.

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